Chapter 39: Small Ideas
White smoke floated in the wind in the Guan Jun compound, and a smell of Chinese herbs mixed with the fragrance of tea filled the entire compound, and then emerged from the compound and slowly flowed outside, gradually the whole village was surrounded by this smell.
At this time, the courtyard of the Guan family was filled with six small red clay stoves, and the squatting on the stove were all identical pot-bellied teapots, and the long, curved spouts like goose necks were now spewing white steam rapidly.
Guan Hongda, Guan Xiaojun, Guan Yang, and Lu Xin'e and others went into battle together, each of them was in charge of a stove, and they kept fanning the stove with a fan in their hands.
Lu Xin'e complained while fanning the wind, "Xiaojun, you kid, aren't you looking for trouble? Just go to your school well, what kind of medicine do you sell?
Guan Hongda corrected: "This is herbal tea, not medicine!
Lu Xin'e was a little unconvinced, "I saw you throw herbs into the pot, why is it not medicine? It's obviously a Chinese medicine soup! The tea leaves are put so little, if it's called herbal tea, it's a bit wrong!"
Guan Xiaojun had a dusty face, only his eyes were shining, he sat on the small bench, holding a pu fan and fanning it constantly, and said with a smile: "The master said that this is herbal tea, then it must be herbal tea, Mom, if you think it's wrong, you can ask the master again?"
Lu Xin'e snorted, "Since it was said by the master, then it must be right, herbal tea is herbal tea, but I always feel that this name is weird!"
In the past two days, the students of the school have come to ask for tea, Guan Hongda originally wanted to make tea and only want to drink it himself, and he never had the idea of boiling tea to sell it, but so many people came to ask for it, and he was embarrassed not to do it, but there are so many people, it is a bit inappropriate to give it away for nothing, but if he asks these students for money, he really can't open his mouth.
At this time, it was highlighted that Guan Xiaojun was coming, and he directly took charge of Guan Hongda, and said to the people who came to ask for herbal tea: "Our herbal tea does not fall from the sky, to buy Chinese medicine and buy black tea, everyone in the family has to go to the city to buy it, and it has to be brewed and steamed according to the recipe, which is expensive and laborious, and the cost is actually very high, and it is impossible to give it to you in vain." If you drink it and it has an effect, then you should give some cost, not much, one pound of tea per person, one pound of tea for one dollar, Tong Su is not bullied, the money has arrived!"
The children who came to drink tea had already been reminded by the teachers and parents, and they were not surprised when they heard Guan Xiaojun say that they wanted money, so they obediently took out the money and gave it to Guan Xiaojun.
There are also some children who are led by their parents, and they feel that it is too expensive to hear that a pound of tea costs a dollar, and now in this year, if they have a cold and fever, they will go to the hospital to see that it is only two or three yuan, and he does not give the child injections, and does not give medicine, just a pound of tea, why do you want so much money?
It's like a lion's mouth!
Guan Hongda I is famous, how can he be greedy for money in this kind of thing?
Although this sentence of collecting money came out of Guan Xiaojun's mouth, everyone felt that it was given to Guan Xiaojun by Guan Hongda, otherwise how could a six or seven-year-old child say such a thing?
Because of this, some people simply led their children directly to the hospital, and no longer had any plans to buy the Guan family's herbal tea.
But more people still choose to drink a cup of herbal tea from the Guan family to try, these children have already seen a doctor from the hospital, but the medicine and injection are too slow, and they came to Guan Xiaojun's house to think that it would be better faster. Although a dollar is no longer a small amount of money, farmers at this time will not be unable to afford it.
At first, Guan Hongda only boiled a few pots for these children to drink, and he didn't feel tired, but after these children drank it, they didn't know if it was because the previous injections had an effect, or because the herbal tea happened to be symptomatic.
This time it was unbelievable, and under word of mouth, more and more people gathered in front of the gate of the closed house.
In this era, people like to share anything strange with others, to put it bluntly, they like to spread gossip, and in the process of spreading, they can't help but exaggerate a little.
Just like the previous chicken blood incident, I heard that chicken blood can cure all kinds of diseases and prolong life, from senior leaders to ordinary people, all of them draw chicken blood and inject it into themselves in order to be healthy.
Now that Guan Hongda's herbal tea is so effective in treating the flu, these people naturally can't help but talk about this kind of thing to their acquaintances, and suggest that patients go and buy some "elixir" to try.
For a time, Guan Hongda in Guandimiao Village actually had a "magical ancient recipe" at home, and the news that the tea brewed according to this recipe "can cure all diseases" quickly spread in ten miles and eight towns.
So Guan Hongda's family gradually became busy.
The people who came to Guan Hongda's house to ask for tea were all villagers who looked up and didn't look down, and Guan Hongda was embarrassed not to give them, so he had no choice but to add a few more stoves to make herbal tea.
But even so, it is still in short supply, Guan Hongda mobilized the family to be busy, this is still not enough, it is not enough to be tired all day long, even Lu Xin'e, the daughter-in-law who has always been well-behaved, began to complain.
In Guan Xiaojun's opinion, even if these herbal teas are a pound and a dollar, they can't earn much money, a big teapot can cook up to ten catties of tea, and all of them are sold out, that is, about ten yuan, and if you throw away the cost, you can earn six or seven yuan, even if you boil fifty pots a day, you can earn about three hundred yuan.
But in this era, you can earn three hundred yuan a day, that's just a money grab, Guan Hongda's kiln factory is at its busiest in business, and it can barely earn two or three hundred yuan a day, compared to boiling some tea and selling it for money, he is a little too tired to open this kiln.
It is because of making money that Guan Hongda mobilized the whole family to work hard, if it weren't for Guan Yunshan's sand pulling is also a money-making business, Guan Hongda would have the heart to let Guan Yunshan do this.
Guan Yang and Guan Xiaojun can only help the family fan the stove after school, and they usually have their own things to be busy with, either going to school or learning kung fu from Guan Zizai.
After learning boxing with Guan Zizai that night, Guan Xiaojun told Guan Zizai about selling tea: "Master, my grandfather said that you gave you the recipe for this herbal tea, and the money from the sale of these teas is half of yours, and he will send you the money tomorrow." However, he asked you to ask you, this herbal tea is always boiled and sold, it is too tiring, is there any good way to make these herbal teas sell, it is not so tiring?"
Guan Zizai laughed and scolded: "I'm not a doctor, how do I know what the method is?"
When he said this, he looked at Guan Xiaojun with a smile, "Xiaojun, do you have any way?"
Guan Xiaojun smiled: "I have an idea, I don't know if it works?"
Guan Zizai raised his eyebrows, "Oh, you said come and listen!"
Guan Xiaojun looked up and said, "Why do we want to make tea for these people? Can't we give them the medicinal herbs and let them boil and drink them themselves?"
Guan Zizai smiled and said, "If we give them the medicinal materials, won't our prescription leak out?"
Guan Xiaojun said: "Then what if the medicinal herbs are ground into powder?"
Guan Zizai was stunned when he heard this, "This method is good! Stinky boy, have you already thought about it?"